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Tag: Ruth E Hetland
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Beautiful Day
Reflections on Shuffle Play (where I write a reflection inspired by a song from that morning’s run) Helga sat in her wheelchair in her room at the nursing home. This was where she liked to sit in the afternoons after lunch – by her window that overlooked the mountains. She had been living in this…
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Strong Enough
Reflections on Shuffle-Play (where I write a reflection each day based on a song from that morning’s run) We’re always letting go of something. Life is a constant process of letting go. Children let go of their youth bit by bit until one day you are teaching them to drive. Over the course of our…
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When You Were Young
Reflections on Shuffle-Play The blog I wrote yesterday, “She’s a Beauty”, came on like a fever. I had to write it. I woke up with the thoughts needing to be come out. Like labor pains, it couldn’t be avoided or delayed, I just had to sit down and write. Then, unlike most of my blog…
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She’s a Beauty
Reflections on Shuffle-Play (a daily exercise to write a reflection based on a song from my morning run) What antagonizes me is all the mental energy I have given it over the years. Even though I have worked hard to battle it, still, whenever anything is wrong or upsetting in life, my first reaction is…
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North Dakota
Reflections on Shuffle-Play Secret in the Church Tower #3 Johanne Johanne sat in Bakken Kirke that hot July morning. She did not remember it ever being so hot in Norway as it was here in America. All the windows were open but there was no breeze drifting over the Dakota prairie. She looked out the…
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Here Comes the Rain Again
Reflections on Shuffle-Play (Secret in the Church Tower #2) Outside it was still raining and there was a clap of thunder intermittently. She wondered what to do. She had no attachment to this church at all. She would be gone by now if it weren’t for this rainstorm and a sudden decision to explore the…
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Message in a Bottle
Reflections on Shuffle-Play She didn’t see the sign on the road that pointed toward Bakken Lutheran Church but she did notice out of the corner of her eye a tall steeple off in the distance. She looked down at her phone and sure enough, it pointed out that she needed to turn in that direction.…
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Glamorous
Reflections on Shuffle-Play We sat at lunch, two friends who had not seen each other for a long time. Out of the blue she had sent an e-mail the week before: “Thinking of you today.” I responded with a short note, the kind of note that feels like way too little when you haven’t had…
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A Long December
Reflections on Shuffle-Play Earl was a widower I visited regularly in Texas. He was a staunch Republican who had been a successful businessman and also loved theology. He was always working on some research or paper. He would often give me books to read after he was done with them. He had a brilliant mind…
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Peace Train
Reflections on Shuffle-Play I saw a bumper sticker in Colorado once that made me laugh out loud. It said, “Christ is coming, look busy!” Some denominations spend a great deal of time talking about Christ’s return. They predict it regularly, using the certainty of it to scare people into ‘right’ living. I’ve almost tended to…